Thank you. :)
Stores like iTunes often carry instrumentals, at least for the singles. There's also acapellas4u.co.uk and Beatport for finding acapellas.
Stores like iTunes often carry instrumentals, at least for the singles. There's also acapellas4u.co.uk and Beatport for finding acapellas.
Of all the EDM I've tried to make - dubstep, drum/bass, house, trance, chillwave - mashups seem to be the easiest, because you start out with all the ingredients.
Find some instrumental tracks and a few a capellas. You'll want them to have similar keys, so they don't clash when you hear them (my mashup suffers from this in a few places), which can be tough, and pitch-shifting won't necessarily get you there. You also have to beat match everything, which means adjusting the tempos of the a capellas so they match your music track. Easiest way to do this is to find a BPM tapper and tap out the BPM for your song and your a capella, and plug those numbers into your DAW's tempo changer. If it's not perfect, you'll just have to slice the track during gaps so that major vocal cues land on specific beats.
After that, you just have to sequence everything together so it sounds good. In a mashup, this means making the lyrics and the music mesh well, and having hooks that throw your audience off guard. For example, in my mashup, my favorite part is the transition into the Offspring song because it just flows so well ("uno dos tres quatro cinco cinco seis" "let's go" "you know it's kind of...") and it's unexpected. Balance the lyrics so that one thing is being said/sung at a time.
Overall, just make it fun. A mashup is supposed to be a unique spin on other songs. Mix things up, and keep it interesting.
No. Not to this unexposed ear. I detest bad mashups, but if there are audio flaws in this one, you've concealed them very well indeed. I'm floored.
This makes me want to get on with my own back-burner electronic music notions.
I have an unusual amount of knowledge about Acid since a friend of mine originally created it (he left Sonic Foundry to work on audio software at Apple the last time I talked to him) and I used it to produce two albums back in the day.